Error after adding vhost to httpd.conf - centos

Question

I added the following text to httpd.conf at the bottom:

<VirtualHost 12.34.56.78.80>
        ServerAdmin     foo@bar.com
        DocumentRoot    /var/www/html/some_dir/
        ServerName      foo-bar.example.com
        ErrorLog        /logs/foo-bar.example.com-error_log
        CustomLog       /logs/foo-bar.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

..and then when attemping to run the following command:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

I get the following error:

[error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name 12.34.56.78.80 -- ignoring!

Note that names and the ip address have been changed for this post.

I have added "NameVirtualHost 12.34.56.78.80" above it all and that resolves the error, but cant seem to get the daemon to start.. — AO_, May 08 '12 at 15:09
The delimiter for the port number is : You need to say 12.34.56.78:80 — Dominic Cronin, May 17 '15 at 20:30

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 31 '15 at 13:19

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It's a typo within your config.

Wrong: <VirtualHost 12.34.56.78.80>

Should be: <VirtualHost 12.34.56.78:80>

answered Mar 31 '15 at 13:19

Markus

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '12 at 14:55

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This is the solution for Ubuntu, but the idea is the same.

answered May 08 '12 at 14:55

Daniel Magnusson

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needed to still add NameVirtualHost 12.34.56.78:80 before it all and recheck the path directives.. – AO_ May 10 '12 at 09:44

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 09:53

I had the same problem with CentOS server and spent like 1/2 day on investigation. Eventually got it fixed with 2 steps:

STEP 1

Make sure that firewall (iptables) doesn't block port 53. I added to

/etc/sysconfig/iptables
/etc/sysconfig/ip6tables

the following lines:

-I INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT
-I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT

restarted firewall

# service iptables restart

and then restarted Apache

# service httpd restart

And then I got again:

[error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Cou...

I restarted Apache again and this time the hosts could be resolved but unfortunately the website still didn't work. So I tried restarting Apache several times and the above error occurred randomly!

STEP 2

Nothing worked so I finally restarted the whole server

# /sbin/reboot

and voilà everything started working like a charm!

Error after adding vhost to httpd.conf - centos

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